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Nigerian basketball player Chimezie Metu and head coach Michael Brown blasted the nation's government and Olympic committee on Saturday for lack of support of their athletes at the Games. The comments came after Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare was provisionally suspended https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...banned-after-failing-drugs-test-idUSKBN2F100E following a positive test for human growth hormone and 10 track and field athletes were ruled ineligible for failing to meet minimum testing requirements. "Our government and the Olympic committee of Nigeria, they make it extremely difficult for us to go out there and just focus on performing our sport," said Metu at a news conference after his team lost their men's preliminary match against Italy.
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